Psychoanalysis Books
The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies: Volume 2: Mainly Foundation Matrices
The social unconscious is vital for understanding persons and their groupings, ranging from families to societies, committees to organisations, and from small to median to large therapeutic groups,... (more)
Psychopathology of Work: Clinical Observations
This book examines the processes at issue in the onset of psychiatric disorders linked to stress in the workplace. Six clinical observations are presented: an acute psychosomatic decompensation... (more)
Traumatic Ruptures: Abandonment and Betrayal in the Analytic Relationship
For much of its history, psychoanalysis has been strangely silent about sudden ruptures in the analytic relationship and their immediate and far-reaching effects for those involved. Such issues of... (more)
The Fascist State of Mind and the Manufacturing of Masculinity: A Psychoanalytic Approach
This book attempts to describe in psychoanalytic terms the psychological consequences of massive social trauma and national humiliation, and the regression that takes place within the individual... (more)
Moving Images: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Film
The experience of watching films - entertaining, moving, instructive, frightening or exciting as they may be - can be enriched by the opportunity to reflect upon them from unconventional... (more)
Social Defences Against Anxiety: Explorations in a Paradigm
This book revisits the theory of social systems as a defence against anxiety first set out by Elliott Jaques and Isabel Menzies Lyth in papers which they published in 1955 and 1960, and which have... (more)
Elements of Reparation: Truth, Faith, and Transformation in the Works of Heidegger, Bion, and Beyond
Damage and reparation are central themes of human existence. Melanie Klein, among other pivotal discoveries, noted our capacity for destructiveness towards others and ourselves. More importantly, she... (more)
Psychoanalytic Therapy with Infants and Parents: Practice, Theory and Results: `
Psychoanalytic Therapy with Infants and Parents provides a clear guide to clinical psychoanalytic work with distressed babies and unhappy parents, infants and their parents, a numerous clinical group... (more)
From Freud To Kafka: The Paradoxical Foundation of the Life-and-Death Instinct
This book takes the reader on a captivating journey leading from an erroneous founding assumption inherited from Freud, to the proposal of a principle better suited to allowing the psychoanalyst to... (more)
Psychoanalysis, International Relations, and Diplomacy
The author has three goals in writing this book. The first is to explore large-group identity such as ethnic identity, diplomacy, political propaganda, terrorism and the role of leaders in... (more)
Teaching Bion: Modes and Approaches
This book is one of a short series on the teaching of post-Kleinian psychoanalysis, with a companion volume on Teaching Meltzer.
Wilfred Bion always emphasised that he had no desire to implant... (more)
Maps for Psychoanalytic Exploration
Maps for Psychoanalytic Exploration brings together Parthenope Bion Talamo’s main works, until now published only in Italian. They are made available to a wider readership in this volume through a... (more)
The Skin-Ego
In this classic work, Didier Anzieu presents and develops his theory of the importance of ‘the Skin-ego’. Just as the skin is wrapped around the body, so Anzieu sees the ‘Skin-ego’ as a psychical... (more)
Good Stuff: Generosity, Resilience, Humility, Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Sacrifice
Good Stuff is divided into two main parts; Part I addresses Positive Attributes and Part II, Positive Actions. The former contains chapters on Courage, Resilience, and Gratitude. The latter contains... (more)
Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life: Ordinary Genius
Psychoanalysis and Creativity in Everyday Life: Ordinary Genius is an attempt to create a psychoanalytic space for the quest and questions of our everyday creativity. Official creativity is normally... (more)
Boundaries and Bridges: Perspectives on Time and Space in Psychoanalysis
Time and space provide the coordinates for the exploration of psychological phenomena and, more specifically, of what takes place in the psychoanalyst’s consulting room: in the minds of the two... (more)
The Mutation of European Consciousness and Spirituality: From the Mythical to the Modern
From the early 1970s, Willy Obrist worked on the neglected theory of C.G. Jung’s depth psychology, incorporating it into modern knowledge about living organisms, and reflecting on the consequences of... (more)
Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud 1904 - 1938
This book is the first publication of the complete correspondence of Sigmund Freud with his daughter Anna. The correspondence ranges over personal and family matters - social events, family holidays,... (more)
Supervision in Psychoanalysis: The Sao Paulo Seminars
This book originates from a series of clinical supervisions that were held at the Sao Paulo Institute of Psychoanalysis by Antonino Ferro. Supervision in Psychoanalysis: The Sao Paulo Seminars... (more)
The Play within the Play: The Enacted Dimension of Psychoanalytic Process
In The Play within the Play Gil Katz presents and illustrates the enacted dimension of psychoanalytic process. He clarifies that enactment is not simply an overt event but an unconscious,... (more)
On Freud's "Screen Memories"
The concept of "screen memories" was introduced by Freud for the first time in his 1899 paper, reprinted here in its entirety. Although the clinical interest in "screen memories" has perhaps... (more)
The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation: The Feminine-Maternal Origins of Responsibility for the Other
According to Jacques André, “the patient’s encounter with the analyst is a scene of seduction, the seductive statement being that of the fundamental rule or the invitation to address that which is... (more)
Winnicott's Babies and Winnicott's Patients: Psychoanalysis as Transitional Space
Winnicott’s thinking continues to grow in importance in psychoanalysis today. This book can be described as a clinical primer: by presenting her own personal responses to Winnicott and her initial... (more)
Working With Difficult Patients: From Neurosis to Psychosis
In this book the author examines the series of connections that give rise to the intimate relationship between environment and individual in the construction of emotional suffering, emphasising both... (more)
On Freud's "A Child is Being Beaten"
Presents a classic essay by Sigmund Freud, followed by discussions that set Freud's work in context and demonstrate its contemporary relevance. The contributors to this volume represent diverse... (more)
The W.R. Bion Tradition
This book engages a truly international group of distinguished Bion scholars, offering a wide variety of contemporary clinical and theoretical explorations and extensions of the seminal work of... (more)
The Klein-Lacan Dialogues
This book records a series of groundbreaking discussions that took place in 1994-95 between a number of prominent Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanalysts. The aim of the presentations and the debates... (more)
Female Sexuality: The Early Psychoanalytic Controversies
The papers collected together in this volume laid the groundwork for contemporary psychoanalytic women’s studies and gender theory. They cover a period from June 1917, when Johan van Ophuijsen... (more)
Betrayal: Developmental, Literary, and Clinical Realms
Betrayal underlies all psychic trauma, whether sexual abuse or profound neglect, violence or treachery, extramarital affair or embezzlement. When we betray others, we violate their confidence in us.... (more)